Never Do Anything, Ever (Dear Dumb Diary #4)

Never Do Anything, Ever (Dear Dumb Diary #4)
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545649455

Read the hilarious, candid (and sometimes not-so-nice), diaries of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything in her diary is true...or at least as true as it needs to be.Her best friend's a backstabber. Her worst enemy is a sweetheart. And her dog is just waiting for the right moment to seek his revenge. Why should Jamie even bother going to school? Why not? After a run-in with Mega-Popular Angeline, aka Pure Evil, Jamie reforms her selfish ways & becomes the decent human being she never thought she could be. But she quickly realizes that helping others kind of stinks. Is someone trying to thwart her attempts at irresistible inner beauty? Or will Jamie finally achieve the "I'm an angel" glow she knows will make Hudson Rivers fall madly in love w/ her?

Never Do Anything, Ever

Never Do Anything, Ever
Author: Jamie Kelly
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2005-11
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781417677870

Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about her search for inner beauty, her fund raising efforts for the Juvenile Optometry Federation, and her practice strategy for the Jump-Rope-A-Thon.

Dumbness Is a Dish Best Served Cold

Dumbness Is a Dish Best Served Cold
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2016-06-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545932939

Return to Mackerel Middle School with a special full-color extra-dumb diary from the New York Times–bestselling author! Life at Mackerel Middle School is as dumb as ever—but Jamie Kelly may have finally found the key to fame, fortune, and fabulousness. Together with Isabella and Angeline, she’s come up with a moneymaking idea, and it has to do with food. Everyone likes food! They’re going to be rich! The only problem? They have to come up with something that people actually want to eat. Jamie has some sophisticated thoughts on food, like, “She was manipulating us like dough. Like the sweet, delicious dough that we are. And she was baking us into the type of delicious cookies you can only get from dough like us. And she was putting sprinkles of us on top of us, and—forget it. I’m hungry. I want some cookies.” This is sure to go well. Praise for Jim Benton’s books “An amusing antic sensibility.” —Publishers Weekly “Preteens will be onboard immediately.” —Kirkus Reviews

Live Each Day to the Dumbest

Live Each Day to the Dumbest
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 054564352X

New York Times–Bestselling Author: Middle schooler Jamie Kelly spends lots of time writing in her diary—but right now she’s taking a peek at someone else’s . . . It’s not easy being a middle-schooler, and nobody knows that better than Jamie Kelly. There are surprises around every corner: some good, some bad, all dumb. But when Jamie inherits a trunk of her grandmother’s things, she never expects to find the biggest surprise of all—Grandma’s diary. Violating the privacy of a diary is something Jamie would never do . . . unless she was absolutely certain that she wanted to do it. And when she does, she learns that, deep down, everyone is exactly the same. Dumb. By the way, Jamie still has no idea that anyone is reading her diary, so please, please, please don’t tell her. And definitely don’t tell her that she’s the star of her very own Dear Dumb Diary movie, available on streaming. (Her glamorous ego might not be able to handle it.)

That's What Friends Aren't For (Dear Dumb Diary #9)

That's What Friends Aren't For (Dear Dumb Diary #9)
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545308461

Bestselling author Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new, all-funny diary! But she has no idea that anybody is reading it. So please, please, please don't tell her.Dear Dumb Diary,So now I'm friends with Angeline. This is automatic friendship, and I have to just accept it and make the best of things. See, if I objected, then Aunt Carol might divorce Angeline's uncle, sending both of them tumbling into a deep pit of depression for the rest of their lives, and Angeline could wind up feeling so guilty that she would have to go be locked up in an old dirty insane asylum for years and years, and Stinker's puppies could grow up not knowing both their parents --- and I couldn't live with myself for doing something like that to a puppy.

Let's Pretend this Never Happened

Let's Pretend this Never Happened
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2004
Genre: Diaries
ISBN: 9781536422993

Middle school student, Jamie Kelly, writes all the strange and sometimes not so wonderful things that happens to her or she sees during school in her diary and promises that everything she writes is as true as she wants it to be.

Can Adults Become Human? (Dear Dumb Diary #5)

Can Adults Become Human? (Dear Dumb Diary #5)
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545295564

Read the hilarious, candid (and sometimes not-so-nice), diaries of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything in her diary is true...or at least as true as it needs to be.Dear Dumb Diary,My social studies teacher, Mr. VanDoy, never smiles. I know that's hard to believe, because everybody smiles about something, right?Isabella smiles when her brothers get in trouble. Angeline smiles when she thinks about how much prettier she is than, like, a waterfall or a unicorn. I smile when I think about a unicorn kicking Angeline over a waterfall. But Mr. VanDoy doesn't smile at all. I wonder if when you become an adult, you can lose your sense of humor the way you lose your teeth or hair or fashion sense.

Am I the Princess or the Frog? (Dear Dumb Diary #3)

Am I the Princess or the Frog? (Dear Dumb Diary #3)
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545649447

Read the hilarious, candid (and sometimes not-so-nice), diaries of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything in her diary is true -- or at least as true as it needs to be.Jamie is crushing on Hudson. Someone too-gross-to-be- named is crushing on Jamie. And Hudson is crushing on . . . Princess Turd of Turdsylvania (a.k.a. The Prettiest Girl in the World). Middle school may be grim, but it's no fairy tale. And crazy doesn't even begin to cover it.

Me!

Me!
Author: Jim Benton
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545116163

Jamie Kelly is back with an all-new diary involving Angeline, her "flawless" friend.